小说家必须是心理学家，但是一种特殊的心理学家——他理解男女的灵魂，仿佛是他创造了他们。

The act of writing is an act of optimism. You would not take the trouble to do it if you felt it didn't matter.

Waste time winning love, and in the end, you'll be the most beloved dead man.

Life is nasty, brutish, and short.

Is there any relief from some of thesepressures that I've been outlining? I think there is. I just want to turn to afew of them. Let's take meritocracy. This idea that everybody deserves to getwhere they get to, I think it's a crazy idea, completely crazy. I will support any politician of Left and Right, with any halfway-decent meritocratic idea; I am a meritocrat in that sense. But I think it's insane to believe that we will ever make a society that is genuinely meritocratic; it's an impossible dream.

穷人的时间总被廉价出售，却永远买不到时间。

我不是说唱歌手，我是一个改变生活的人。